Minnesota Twins players Ehire Adrianza front, and Ervin Santana back, along with other members of the team watch the solar eclipse before a baseball game between the Minnesota Twins and Chicago White Sox Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

CHICAGO — Chatting for a few minutes in the hallway outside the Twins clubhouse on Friday night, Ehire Adrianza and his godfather Ozzie Guillen discussed family and Chicago dining and basically everything but their sport.

“We weren’t talking about baseball,” said Adrianza, who on Sunday made his 14th start at shortstop this season. “We never talk about baseball when we’re together.”

That will change next offseason in the Venezuelan Winter League when Guillen manages Adrianza for the first time. Set to return for a third season as manager of Caracas-based Tiburones de La Guaira, Guillen was pleased this spring when his general manager swung a trade with Caribes (about five hours away) for Adrianza.

All it cost Guillen’s last-place team was Luis Sardinas, the utility infielder for the Baltimore Orioles. Adrianza, who has played a total of eight games in the past three winter-league seasons, is looking forward to going home at age 29 to play in front of his large extended family.

Having Guillen as his skipper certainly takes the opportunity to another level.

“I think it’s going to be weird, you know?” Adrianza said with a smile. “He’s going to be my manager. I have to play for him. It’s going to be awesome. I’m very excited about it.”

The last time Guillen, who grew up in the same neighborhood as Adrianza’s father, so much as hit grounders to Adrianza, the Twins’ utility man was “just a kid” of maybe 6 or 8 years old. Will the famously emotive Guillen be able to yell at Adrianza should he feel the need?

“If he has to, he can do that,” Adrianza said. “He’s the manager. When we are in the stadium, he’s my manager. Off the field he can be my family again. We have to separate that kind of stuff.”

THINKING OF YADI

There was plenty of concern in the Twins clubhouse for St. Louis Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina, who is expected to miss four weeks after undergoing surgery for a pelvic injury related to a foul tip that struck his groin.

“Great teammate, great leader, great catcher,” Duke said. “I know it’s not an ideal situation, but if I know Yadi he’s going to come back as soon as he can and be at the same level. It’s just an unfortunate part of this game. You know things like that can happen. I wish him nothing but a speedy recovery.”

It’s unclear how soon Molina will be able to return to Busch Stadium, but the Twins are hoping to be able to pay their respects to Molina while in town for a two-game interleague series Monday and Tuesday.

“With him behind the plate, it takes so much pressure off the pitcher just because you know how prepared he is,” Duke said. “You don’t have to think a lot about what you’re going to throw because pretty much whatever he puts down is the right pitch at the time.”

WILSON PLAN

A handful of teams pursued Bobby Wilson on minor-league deals this offseason, but his familiarity with a pair of Twins executives tipped the scales in their favor.

In addition to Twins general manager Thad Levine, who knew Wilson from his final two seasons with the Texas Rangers (2015-16), first-year farm director Jeremy Zoll knew Wilson from the 2017 season he spent at Triple-A with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

“It just seemed like a good fit,” Wilson said before making his first Twins start Sunday.

Shortly after cutting ties with former backup catcher Chris Gimenez, who took his free agency after being outrighted off the 40-man roster in November, the Twins signed Wilson to a deal that included a June 1 opt-out and pays him $950,000 in the majors.

While Gimenez is stuck with the Triple-A Iowa Cubs, where he is hitting .200 in 75 plate appearances, Wilson’s defensive chops got him back to the majors when Twins starting catcher Jason Castro was placed on the 10-day disabled list Saturday.

“Obviously it was disappointing at the end of the spring to have to go back to the minor leagues again,” Wilson said. “but I kind of understood the situation and took a couple days to think about what I wanted to do. I’m just glad to be back in the big leagues. I feel like this is a place we have a chance to win.”

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